RE: Kimi Raikkonen To Go To NASCAR

[onomatopoeia]

hornet said:

Confirmed as a limited race schedule with Kyle Busch.

http://kylebuschmotorsports.com/news/entry.php?nid...

Given the KBM won the truck series owners championship last year, he's going to have the equipment and people to win. Of course, the fact that it was Kyle Busch actually driving the truck in many of the races was a major factor in all the victories the team had.

[DanB7290]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90474

First test today, he seems happy with it. Did laugh at one of the sponsors "Perky Jerky"

[hornet]

DanB7290 said:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90474

First test today, he seems happy with it. Did laugh at one of the sponsors "Perky Jerky"

Makes you wonder what happened to Pinky?

Maybe they should modify it to Perkele Jerky?

[Tman87]

ArnageWRC said:

Twincam16 said:

The only comparable achievements I can think of, if he does put up a good showing, would either be Jim Clark's multi-discipline exploits, or Jon Surtees' championship wins in F1 and motorbikes.

It's worth pointing out Kimi races snowmobiles in Finland too.

Don't forget Vic Elford - won the 1968 Monte Carlo Rally for Porsche, then won the 24 Hours of Daytona for Porsche a few weeks later.

Two of last years successful Audi Le Mans winning drivers, Timo Bernhard & Romain Dumas - are both doing their respective National Rally series in Porsche 911 GT3's...

Just thoguht id add Nigel Mansell was F1 champ then went onto win CART series the year after.

Wish Kimi all the best tho at NASCAR